CORYPHINJS 11 When 6 inches high the little plants should be put out 18 inches apart in carefully prepared nursery beds, and grown carefully till 4 feet high, then transplanted to their permanent quarters, which may be in lines 30 feet apart, with 20 feet between each tree in the line. The ground should then be kept under irrigated crops for two years to get the young trees established." (Woodrow). ILLUSTRATION.—Plate II. The photograph, supplied by Mr. Phipson, shows a fine specimen of Phainte sylvestris growing on the Hanging Gardens, Malabar Hill, Bombay. The dense, almost sphetical crown, with the gracefully bending leaves, at once distinguishes this species from the real Date Palm (P. dacfylifera). The lower part of the stem is covered with ferns and other vegetation. As the stem, however, is the same throughout, i. e. covered by the persistent bases of the leaf-stalks, the imagination can easily supply the hidden part of the trunk. Plate III. The photograph shows a small group of Wild Date Palms with their natural surroundings. It is a scene on the seashore 011 the East side of Malabar Hill, Bombay, charac- teristic of many parts of India. 2. Phcenix zeylanica, Trim en in Jourii. Hot. XXIII. (1885) 267; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 425; Trimen FL Ceylon IV. 326. — Pkvenix zeylanica, Hort,; Hook, f, in Kew Report, 1882, 63. — Phoenix sylvestri$> Thw. Enum. 329 (n